Implementation Teams
As envisioned in the Conservation Plan, implementation of on-the-ground restoration efforts requires coordination at the state and local levels across agencies and across all lands. So far, implementation teams and other collaborative efforts have formed in 13 locations across 9 states, as shown by the map below. The implementation teams are taking on tasks including:
- Convening multi-stakeholder efforts to support longleaf pine restoration;
- Developing maps and information as well as providing a forum for developing priorities for restoration; and
- Identifying and following through with landowners and managers to fund, implement, and evaluate restoration projects.
Virginia
| Todd Edgerton | Department of Forestry | todd.edgerton@dof.virginia.gov | |
| Bridgett Costanzo | Fish and Wildlife Service | Bridgett_Costanzo@fws.gov |
North Carolina
| North Carolina Longleaf Coalition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lark Hayes | Coordinator | larkhayes@selcnc.org | |
| Susan Miller | Fish and Wildlife Service | Susan_Miller@fws.gov | |
| Kim Shumate | NC Division of Forest Resources | kim.shumate@ncdenr.gov | |
South Carolina
| Russell Hubright | South Carolina Forestry Commission | (803) 896-8823 | rhubright@forestry.state.sc.us |
| Sandhills Longleaf Pine Conservation Partnership | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Allyne (Lyne) Askins | Refuge Manager, Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge | Allyne_Askins@fws.gov | |
| Jason Ayers | Ecological Services, Charleston, SC | Jason_Ayers@fws.gov | |
| Low Country of South Carolina | |||
| Amadou Diop | National Wildlife Federation | diopa@nwf.org | |
| Steve Moore | SC Wildlife Federation | steve@scwf.org | |
| Joelette Crawl | Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund | joletcc@yahoo.com | |
| Orlando Sutton | USDA Forest Service, Francis Marion NF | osutton@fs.fed.us | |
Georgia
| Reggie Thackston | Georgia DNR Wildlife Resources Division | (478) 994-7583 | Reggie_Thackston@dnr.state.ga.us |
| Chattahoochee Fall Line Conservation Partnership | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wade Harrison | The Nature Conservancy | 706-682-0104 | wharrison@tnc.org |
Florida
| Osceola National Forest's Longleaf Pine Restoration Project | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Petrick | USFS, Forest Supervisor's Office | cpetrick@fs.fed.us | |
| Ivan Green | USFS District Ranger, Osceola | igreen@fs.fed.us | |
| Apalachicola Regional Stewardship Alliance, Longleaf Subcommittee | |||
| Joe Reinman | USFWS St. Marks NWR | joseph_reinman@fws.gov | |
| Marcus Beard | USFS, Apalachicola NF | mbeard@fs.fed.us | |
Florida/Alabama
| Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership (GCPEP) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Compton | Longleaf Alliance | vernon@longleafalliance.org | |
Alabama
| NRCS State Technical Committee, Longleaf Subcommittee | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Albritton | NRCS, for State Technical Committee | Tim.Albritton@al.usda.gov | |
Mississippi
| Mississippi Longleaf Coordination Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne Tucker | Longleaf Coordinator for Mississippi Forestry Commission | wtucker@mfc.state.ms.us | |
Texas
| Texas-Louisiana Longleaf Pine Taskforce | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Todd Nightingale | Texas Co-chair, Texas Forest Service | tnightingale@tfs.tam.edu | |
| Kent Evans | USDA Forest Service | kevans@fs.fed.us | |
| Roel Lopez | Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources | roel@tamu.edu | |
Louisiana
| Texas-Louisiana Longleaf Pine Taskforce | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Jacob | Louisiana Co-chair, The Nature Conservancy | rjacob@tnc.org | |
| Ed Bratcher | USDA Forest Service, Kistachie NF | ebratcher@fs.fed.us | |
| South Central Louisiana Ecosystem Conservation Project | |||
| Cynthia Dancak | Coordinator | cdancak@suddenlink.net | |